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Napa Valley Register, 04 Dec 2011 – The city of Napa has kicked its share of the medical marijuana can down the road another 10 months, smack-dab into the heart of the 2012 campaign season. But don’t expect local voters to have much say in its future.

Seattle Times, 05 Dec 2011 – Gov. Gregoire gets big points for offering a petition to the federal government to reclassify medical marijuana. Good for her. She should have had a similar petition ready last year. WASHINGTON and Rhode Island Govs. Chris Gregoire and Lincoln Chafee have petitioned the U.S.

Reno News & Review, 29 Dec 2011 – Re “Is Obama in control?” (Editorial, Dec. 22): When the last number of presidents have used cannabis (marijuana) recreationally, there should be no question cannabis prohibition should automatically be terminated, especially since roughly 70 percent of Americans support it.

Chicago Reader, 05 Dec 2011 – On the morning of October 27, after several weeks of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, Cook County commissioner John Fritchey stepped before reporters to make a demand that would have been unthinkable just a short time earlier: Chicago police should stop arresting people for possessing small amounts of marijuana.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 05 Dec 2011 – It is disheartening to keep reading the old libertarian rationale for legalizing drugs (“Drug war a failure, world leaders agree,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, Dec. 1). Legalization proponents do not care about the millions of families destroyed by drug use. Street drugs lead to psychosis, often reducing users to total dependency.

Spokesman-Review, 06 Dec 2011 – Five years ago last month, Milton Friedman died at age 94. To the very end, the Nobel Prize-winning economist was astute, tireless and wonderfully avuncular. Thanks to the Internet, his commentaries on subjects ranging from greed to slavery to the Great Depression myth and many other topics can be enjoyed […]

Reno News & Review, 29 Dec 2011 – Re “Is Obama in control?” (Editorial, Dec. 22): Obama could be in control of the marijuana problem by upholding the rule of law, the Constitution of the United States. The marijuana laws impinge upon fundamental rights, a justiciable controversy under Article III.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 07 Dec 2011 – John Hansen shows a misunderstanding of people in his letter titled “Illegal drugs cause irreparable harm” (Star-Advertiser, Letters, Dec. 5). Some people in society emerge from childhood with a desire to numb their minds of a pain most of us will never understand. These people are prone to develop […]

Reno News & Review, 29 Dec 2011 – Re “Is Obama in control?” (Editorial, Dec. 22): In Ken Burns’ outstanding PBS documentary Prohibition, it was revealed that alcohol prohibition corrupted all levels of our government-all the way up to the Warren G. Harding White House. The alcohol cartels had hundreds of politicians on their payroll.

Appeal-Democrat, 08 Dec 2011 – The Live Oak City Council on Wednesday night banned residents from growing their own medical marijuana. Marijuana grows plague the city with an unbearable stench and fear of violence, ban supporters said. Council members agreed on 5-0 vote.